Sentences with phrase «decade as the population»

The country has the world's third - largest economy, yet this may change over the next few decades as its population — the fastest aging in the world — plummets from 126 million in 2015 to 87 million in 2060.

Those neighborhoods have only become more challenged in the last few decades as the population that remains has become more isolated from the rest of Chicago.

«Right now, more than 19 million older adults live in unaffordable or inadequate housing, and that problem will only grow worse in the next two decades as our population ages,» says Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of AARP Foundation, which provided funding for the report.

Many argue that occupancy trends will eventually reverse as the demand for long - term care increases exponentially in the next decade as the population ages.

Not exact matches

On March 15, one of the contenders to become China's president for the next decade, Bo Xilai, was sacked as the Communist Party boss for Chongqing, an inland megalopolis with a population roughly equal to Canada's.

As I've written previously, Election 2016 was a repudiation of the globalization trend that helped drive post-World War II growth but in recent decades has spread its benefits unequally across the population.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

Yet the total rate of small business ownership, defined as the percentage of the population owning a business in a given month, has been dropping for decades, according to the report.

The demographics are also changing: more than 400 million millennials have emerged as a driving force in consumer spending, while the country's aging population — expected to double over the next two decades — will generate new product and services demands.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has just published statistics showing that the wealthiest 1 % of America's population doubled its share of wealth over the decade ending in 2007 as the bubble reached its peak.

In fact, more than one third of the U.S. population is now officially obese while the number of people classified as morbidly obese jumped more than 350 % in the past three decades alone.

Even after a decade of intentional media onslaught, almost half the population still considers it as such.You should recognize the fact that depicting my view as archaic and hate filled is both inaccurate and misguided on your part.

During the decade of the 60s the UUA suffered a net membership loss of 4.4 per cent as compared to population growth.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

As James Wellman points out, «Evangelical numbers have grown 32 percent in the last decade in Washington, and evangelicals now account for 38 percent of the church - affiliated population.»

Other surveys — such as the General Social Surveys, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago since 1972 — find that the Catholic share of the U.S. adult population has held fairly steady in recent decades at around 25 %.

The Lausanne Movement identified the coming decades as a crucial period for mission in Africa, noting that the African population will double by 2050 and the youth population will reach a peak of 663 million.

The 1990s is now regarded as the crucial decade which will determine population trends over the next century.

The consumption of spices in the United States has exploded almost three times as fast as the population over the past several decades, data from the USDA reveals.

The country briefly achieved rice self - sufficiency in the 1970s, but was set back by different factors such as its location in the typhoon belt, limited land, and high population increase in succeeding decades.

China has observed declining population growth for over a decade as a result of the one - child policy and a therefore subsequent reduction in household size.

It has been popular among the population for decades and today it ranks as the 23rd most common name in the US.

The species was assessed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2009 after more than two decades of population studies indicated that its numbers had plummeted by more than 99 percent over three generations.

Angola gained notoriety just over a decade ago as an oil - rich country run by an oligarchy lording over an impoverished, war - weary population.

In 1992, the unemployment rate of the young was twice as high as for the rest of the population; two decades later, it is up to four times higher.

Time is ripe for a shift in focus on a new subject, which has remained largely undiscussed over the past decade: drug use (as opposed to addiction) among the general population.

The announcement of the penalties for senior - level DOC officials comes the same day City Comptroller Scott Stringer released a report showing the Department's spending has soared to a record $ 1.36 billion this year, growing 44 percent over the past decade, even as the inmate population hit a record low — an average of 9,500 inmates each day.

Upstate New York this decade has not grown in population and has struggled to retain or increase jobs at the same pace as downstate New York.

But as the town's population has since more than doubled, Democrats over those decades have gradually overtaken Republicans in voter enrollment — «like a glacier,» Kindel said.

Indeed, the concerns of these two groups are increasingly conjoined, as Britain's young population has become progressively more urban in the past two decades.

Over the course of the past two decades, brook trout populations have rebounded as a result of ponds and waterways becoming less acidic — including those written off as dead.

Even though the state's population grew 2.1 percent over the past decade, the country's population as a whole continues to move south and west.

But in recent decades, the district's African - American population has declined as some blacks leave the city, many for the south, while Latinos and West Africans move into the district, Naison said.

It is listed as «least concern» by the IUCN because of its large range and abundance of individuals, yet its overall population has been declining for a number of decades.

As the wolves have died off on the island — only two remained during last year's winter study — the moose population has tripled in the past decade, reaching about 1,600 in the 2017 survey.

Populations of this unique species, currently known as highly threatened, were previously considered to have remained relatively stable in the face of the disease that has ravaged many amphibian species worldwide, but the frogs may have been infected over a decade ago, with the impacts only recently observed.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The absolute numbers of older Americans with dementia are sure to grow as the population ages in the coming decades, but new data suggest that the overall proportion with the condition is mysteriously declining.

Eight countries in southern Asia — and a quarter of the world's population — face severe environmental and economic disruption as the climate changes over the coming decades, warns the Climate Institute, a think - tank in Washington DC.

Methane concentrationin the atmosphere has grown steadily as Earth's human population has grown, rising one percent a year over the last decade.

In recent decades, as the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed around him, Bill Fraser has pieced together these myriad factors that have caused Adélie populations in his study area to decline by more than 80 percent, falling from roughly 35,000 breeding pairs in 1974 to 5,600 today.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Hunting, logging, mining and disease are taking a terrible toll on the greatest of the great apes, and if things continue as they are, they may be reduced to nothing more than a series of small, highly vulnerable populations within decades.

With comments such as these gaining attention — and in some circles, approval — are environmentalists and eventually policy makers likely to renew the decades - old call for «population control»?

Malawi, in southeastern Africa, gave farmers bags of seed and fertilizer and saw food prices fall and the percentage of its population classified as undernourished drop by almost half over a decade, Funk added.

Concern over honey bee declines in recent decades as well as annual losses has sparked debate over their causes and has led to hypotheses that a specific novel syndrome «Colony Collapse Disorder» (CCD) is plaguing bee populations.

As the world's population grows, and the proportion of elderly people increases, the number of people living in suboptimum health is set to rise rapidly over coming decades, warn the authors.

Akey says: «As population geneticists, we could spend the next decade arguing about that 2 %, but in practical terms it doesn't matter.»